The bronze medalist of swimming competitions at the Olympic Games in London Nikita Lobertov said that together with Alexander Tikhonov and Alexander Sukhorukov will train in the USA at the Trojan club with the famous American specialist David Salo. "Together with the guys - Alexander Sukhorukov and Alexander Tikhonov - I plan to fly to America on October 11," the press service of the All -Russian Swimming Federation (VPF) told Lobertsev.

The Office of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in the Far East declared preliminary reasons for a large emergency that occurred in mid -June in Vladivostok: the village of Novy - the de -Fris - Sedanka - Sedanka - Patrol Bay, built to the Summit, was blurred due to violations of the construction rules, the official website of the department reports.

The winner of the Russian Football Cup of 2012 - Kazan Rubin - resigned his authority already in the 1/16 finals of the next tournament. On Wednesday, at the Central Stadium in Krasnoyarsk, Rubin with a score of 1: 2 lost to the Krasnoyarsk Yenisei. In the 18th minute, Rais Sitdikov brought the hosts forward, and soon Alexei Nikitin (29 ') doubled the advantage of the Yenisei.

The Federation Council will conduct an internal audit of the incident related to the payment of Zenit football players from the Social Insurance Fund of more than 162 million rubles, Valery Ryazansky, chairman of the Upper House of Social Policy, said on Wednesday at the meeting. It turned out that a dozen football players paid funds intended for residents of the entire metropolis.

Irina Prokhorova “A series of draconian laws paralyzing the activities of society, incessant unrest around the PussyRiot case, fraternization of the president with pie in the sky and many other glorious deeds almost overshadowed the main patriotic event of early autumn - the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino...

The metropolitan "Spartak" on his native ice lost to the suburbs of Atlanta with a score of 2: 5 in the next match of the KHL regular championship, having suffered the fourth defeat in a row. The red and white opened the score in the fifth minute of the meeting after the throw by Andrei Schaefer, but then the Atlanteans managed to level the situation and achieve a comfortable advantage. Of particular active striker was Nikolai Zherdev, who marked 3 (2+1) glasses for performance.

More than 80% of Russians approve of the initiative to tighten the punishment for vandalism and damage to church property, insulting the feelings of believers and calling for such actions, testify data from the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion ( VTsIOM ). And this despite the fact that the vast majority of respondents do not notice at all that recently their right to freedom of religion was limited in any way.

The secular Egyptian newspaper launched a response campaign against caricatures on the Prophet Muhammad published last week in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The Al-Watan newspaper, which is in opposition to the current government of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt, printed 13 cartoons ridiculed the attitude of the inhabitants of the West to Muslims. The series was called "Battle of Carications", reports BBC . So, one of the drawings depicts two Arab.

Two fragments of the Russian military spacecraft Cosmos-2251 , which formed on February 10, 2009, in a collision in orbit with the American telecommunication satellite Iridium 33, pose a potential threat to the security of the International Space Station. In the coming days, they can go in a threatening proximity to the ISS, Interfax was told in Tsup.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, Lieutenant General Viktor Bondarev, commented on the stories around the flights of the Su-24 bomber and the Mi-8 helicopter at extremely small altitudes literally above the heads of motorists, which became known thanks to the online rollers. According to him, these flights are not hooligan antics, but he promised that this would not happen again, Interfax reports.

The cost of a program for the reconstruction of the historical center of St. Petersburg, which is currently being developed by the city authorities, can amount to four trillion rubles, said Igor Golikov, chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade of Smolny. The authorities of St. Petersburg previously said that this fall they intend to approve the program of preserving the historical center of the city, designed for 10 years.

The Central Bank considers the possibility of improving the reserve claims for loans for loans without security (cash loans, in retail chains and credit cards), said the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Alexei Simanovsky. According to him, the increase will occur over several months, will affect unlicensed loans and loans with a minimum delay of up to 30 days and will be two times.

On Tuesday, the Washington Police detained an employee of a law office who is suspected of sexual abuse of masseurs. The serial rapist came to massage salons under the guise of a client, and then attacked the medical staff. At the moment, the suspect, who used to work in the city prosecutor's office of Seattle, is placed in King County, writes The Seattle Times .

A significant part of the missile systems (RK), which are in service with Russian missile forces of strategic purpose (Strategic Missile Forces), belongs to outdated.

The Astrakhan Garrison Military Court sentenced the criminal case against the commander of the combined company of the destruction of ammunition of the military unit 45767, captain of Roman Ryazantsev. For the death of eight soldiers in the explosion at the infamous Ashuluk training ground, during the unloading of ammunition in August last year, their commander received three and a half years in prison in a colony-settlement, the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office reports.